Global ice loss from climate change now matches the IPCC's worst-case scenario

[NickB79]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-25/climate-change-is-melting-ice-in-every-continent-new-study-shows

Melting on the ice sheets has accelerated so much over the past three decades that it’s now in line with the worst-case climate warming scenarios outlined by scientists.

A total of 28 trillion metric tons of ice was lost between 1994 and 2017, according to a research paper published in The Cryosphere on Monday. The research team led by the University of Leeds in the U.K. was the first to carry out a global survey of global ice loss using satellite data.

[cilla4progress]

1. Yep

crisis. We are all in it.

[Miguelito Loveless]

2. And it is going to get much worse, much faster.

The tipping point is past.

[Submariner]

3. Miami will be 115 degrees in the shade like Baghdad in 15-20 years

We're way way past the point of no return.

[roamer65]

6. In 20-25 years, try 125 to 130 deg F.

Then the Great Climate Migration will be under way.

[NNadir]

4. Although we are not prone to admit as much, this disaster is in part from the reactionary belief...

...that so called "renewable energy" is sufficient to address the environmental impacts of meeting human development goals.

There is a reason that so called "renewable energy" was abandoned in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and the reason was that most people, even more so than today, lived short, miserable lives of dire poverty.

So called "renewable energy" is not sustainable, nor is it even remotely capable of eliminating the use of dangerous fossil fuels. After half a century of mindless cheering for so called "renewable energy," the use of dangerous fossil fuels is rising at an unprecedented pace.

We will continue to destroy the future of the biosphere, including the lives of all future generations unless we can abandon our superstitious approach to nuclear energy. It is not the case that nuclear energy needs to be without risk to be vastly superior to all other options. It only needs to be vastly (incredibly in fact) superior to all other options, which it is.

Selective attention and fetishes don't cut it.

Denial on the right is one thing; the failure to recognize things as they are on the left is equally responsible.

[Delphinus]

9. I always

appreciate your thoughtful responses. Thank you.

[NNadir]

13. ...and thank you for your kind words.

I often feel that what I say doesn't matter.

[c-rational]

11. +1

[roamer65]

5. We are near halfway to the late Cretaceous GHG concentration of around 1000+ ppm.

[Demovictory9]

7. kick

[live love laugh]

8. I can tell ... warmest Chicago winter ever. Very little snow. nt

[Delphinus]

10. Here in

NE Indiana we've had less than 10" of snow. Right now dealing with an ice storm from last night. At first it was going to be 3-6 inches of snow. It wound up being probably less than an inch of snow with a good coating of ice.

[live love laugh]

12. Yep. Expected much more snow. They can't even predict the weather. nt